Case against Allentown police chief's son was weak

The Lehigh County detectives involved in the Christopher Fitzgerald case will forever be known as Toast 1 and Toast 2. That is what happened to their careers when the jury's verdict was presented.

Accusations are not made against a police chief's family unless the facts are indisputable and you have 10 solid witnesses. This case played out in the media and in court as a one-star "he said, she said" soap opera.

While I have great respect for District Attorney Jim Martin, he and his staff overlooked an old proverb that goes, "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it most probably is a duck." Since August 2014, this case was a dead duck.